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In reply to the discussion: What were you doing when John Lennon was killed? [View all]pink-o
(4,056 posts)who saw The Beatles play Candlestick, their last concert. We heard about it on the morning of the 9th, GMT. My one friend went out to get the Guardian and some smokes, then ran home and shook me awake with the horrible news. I had worked a late shift at the Rock Garden (I was a bartender) and never got up before noon. I was really pissed off at my friend, until I focused on the headline she was waving in front of my face. Then I spent the day weeping.
Gotta add: the three of us were home that evening, listening to the BBC, and they played "Across the Universe". Up to that point, I just dismissed that song as Hippy-Dippy jargon, but since then, it'll make me cry just thinking about it. I like to think of John's love, expanding like the galaxies. And as a fellow Atheist, we know it expands like this: each new person to hear his songs will pass them on, will add to those of us who love and cherish his memory.